Episode 180: rightFolds in an AI world?

rightFolds as a pun on Mark's recent right vocal fold surgery, healing means we're good to record again, plus IA celebrates 17 years of existence, even if episodes have seriously lacked of late. Last episode Aug 27, 2025 - it's been a while.
Does language theory and evolution have a place/need in an AI world?
New JVM language features vs Syntactic sugar ala Clojure/Scala features
Bun's recent zig->rust total AI rewrite
Vercel engineer built Zero, a programming Language for AI Agents | Yeamt
1. Why Did They Build This?
jank now has its own custom IR
1. Do any of these funky languages matter in an AI world?
2. Is 'Good Enough' Good Enough: Mindsets and Behaviors for Sales Excellence
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4. Is Good Enough, Good Enough? (Part 1)
AI and the increased threat of Supply Chain attacks
How We Got a CISA GitHub Leak Taken Down in Under a Day
NPM and its recent attacks
Package Managers are Evil - gingerBill
1. The Aesthetic Problem of Namespacing - gingerBill

Tooling

AI and Development

"Everyone" leaving Github

A usability study of radicle
Git is distributed, GitHub is not - Radicle brings a distributed forge for software development, including distributed issues, patches, code review, and CI solutions for a resilient forge.
HardenedBSD Officially on Radicle
Ghosty leaving Github
Zig: Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg
This, plus Zig's recent firm anti-AI stance led to the Bun port.
Thoughts on Leaving GitHub
GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension